10 months ago
Adjust Helm (and other apparel) on Jocol Females

As you can see, the helm is very oddly aligned on female Jocols. It feels very off center and their left eye is completely obscured when it should be somewhat visible. The "point" of the snout piece is very clearly off center. I'm also not a fan of how it overlaps on the right ear, it's very obviously out of place.

Honestly, female Jocols in general seem to have gotten the short end of the apparel stick. I know the apparel has been drawn in such a way (and the poses planned in such a way) that apparel images can be reused for as many wolves as possible, in order to avoid redrawing the apparel for every single wolf pose. However, there's times where this just doesn't work well. I rarely put any apparel past the piercings onto my female Jocols because it almost always looks awkward. It's very obviously drawn for a full side view instead of a 3/4 view, but it's still being slapped onto a 3/4 view pose.

For example, pretty much everything meant for the neck area just looks awkward and uncomfortable. It's digging into their right shoulder blade somehow instead of draping over the neck. This makes it look like their shoulder is just straight up dislocated. And that's because the art is being reused for a perspective it wasn't drawn in.


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I support this, but I also understand that it's a lot of work to redo art and know that this isn't a fix we'll see in a forseeable future.

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It would definitely be better to tackle this NOW while we don't have much in the way of site-drawn apparel AND the smallest number of breeds the site will ever see.

Future apparel should keep this in mind, and then they should update the existing apparel in chunks-- the armor is all recolors, fixing the outlines once is the largest bulk of that work, etc.


While this might be less intensely important to the function of the site & the severe need for profession and other coding QoL that is needed everywhere else, this also takes a different team and skill set to fix; so I don't think it should be put off indefinitely simply because of those things either.


I'm not optimistic that they will care, since polish doesn't seem to be a concern for the team. But it would be nice to see some attention put towards it regardless, even if in a smaller way with art updates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yeah, the best time to fix this problem is now. Right now is the easiest it will ever be to fix. The longer it's put off, the more work it requires (though I would hope that any future apparel is adjusted properly when it's first created even if the current apparel never is)

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